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Well, he lent the key out to us . . .

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:52:21 +0000

Joel hipped us to Jeff and Casey Time a while back. I’m here to tell you that Book 2 (The Mayonnaise Crisis), Chapter 2 is pretty funny.

“Everybody’s losing their shit, right? They’re like, Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, there’s a scorpion on the nun, there’s a scorpion on the nun!”

12 Indicted On Hate Crimes Charges For Hair Cutting Assaults Led By Break-Off Amish Group

Deron Bauman — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:03:18 +0000

I think this is my favorite story of 2011.

Smell Them; You’ll Know.

Aaron Winslow — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:49:57 +0000

Fade from black to black.

Have you seen this?

Christopher Walken — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:51:39 +0000

Wait until about the 4:45 mark…

image out of context

Joel Bernstein — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:01:13 +0000

Texts from Bennet

Andrew Simone — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:04:20 +0000

The tumblr claims it’s real. I don’t believe it, but that doesn’t matter.

quote out of context

Joel Bernstein — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:11:24 +0000

I suppose you’re right, but from my experience, writing a novel is like having sex with a gorilla. You ain’t done till the gorilla’s done. You might think, Well, when I’m done, I’ll be done. But you’re not done.The gorilla’s still going.

Astronauts Falling Down

Casey Cichowicz — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:30:23 +0000

For some reason, after watching this, I spent another twenty minutes watching moon-landing conspiracy videos. Try to avoid that if possible.

The Wet Spots

Dave Vogt — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:16:57 +0000

I’ve recently rediscovered The Wet Spots. They make sex-positive musical comedy. I’ll leave the being funny to them.

“Where’s my rubber chicken?’

Sheila Ryan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:56:40 +0000

A rubber chicken is a replica of a completely plucked but otherwise complete barnyard fowl made from a latex injection mold. A popular sight gag and slapstick comedy prop, rubber chickens are sometimes used by comics as a mock weapon. They are also sometimes used by jugglers in place of clubs. The origin of the rubber chicken is obscure, but is likely a natural change of the use of pig bladders. In the days before the development of plastic and latex, bladders were inflated and attached to a stick. They were used as props by jesters and minstrels for the same comic effects as the modern rubber chicken.

One account attributes the use of a prop chicken to John Holmberg, the Swedish black-faced clown of the early 1900s. At that time, gluttony was fashionable and considered a sign of affluence, and Holmberg would perform with his pockets full of fake food in order to make fun of the upper classes.

Another likely apocryphal account, which is printed on the tag of rubber chickens manufactured by Archie McPhee, claims that the symbol originated during the French Revolution with soldiers hanging a chicken from their muskets for luck. The apocryphal history of the rubber chicken as used by revolutionaries led a Discordian group, The International Rubber Chicken Society, formed in New Fairfield, Connecticut, to use the emblem of the rubber chicken. The International Rubber Chicken Society’s occult symbolism may also have led the pseudo-secret society to use the rubber chicken (a sight-gag with the initials “R.C.”) to suggest a link between them, Discordian occult practices, and the Rosey Cross (“R.C.”) of Rosicrucianism. Monty Python’s Flying Circus featured a recurring bit having a raw chicken-carrying knight who hits people when they begin to ramble. Andrés Bustamante also featured rubber chickens during his shows in the 1990s.

A rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle is a gag object found in LucasArts’ Monkey Island franchise games. It is also used as a rating system in the TV show Good Game and Good Game-SP.